Title: Zakicoxol

Date: October 23, 1829 or 1824

Language(s): K'iche' and Spanish

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Ms. dance-drama, of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'iche' and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious). Text incomplete.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 28 leaves; 22 x 16 cm.

Binding: Disbound (two gatherings and a fragment of another)

PROVENANCE

Previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edmonson, Munro S. Quiché Damas and Dvinatory Calendars (New Orleans, La.: Middle American Research Institute, 1997).

Title: Zakicoxol

Date: 1800s

Language(s): K'iche' and Spanish

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Ms. dance-drama, of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'iche' and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious). Text incomplete.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 28 leaves; 22 x 17 cm.

Binding: Disbound (one gathering)

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Title: Zakicoxol

Date: 1800s

Language(s): K'iche' and Spanish

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Ms. dance-drama, of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'iche' and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious).

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 34 leaves; 22 x 16 cm.

Binding: Disbound (one gathering)

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edmonson, Munro S. Quiché Dramas and Divinatory Calendars (New Orleans, La.: Middle American Research Institute, 1997). 

Title: Zakicoxol

Date: September 20, 1802 or 1800

Language(s): K'iche' and Spanish

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Ms. dance-drama, of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'ich'e and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious). Signed "escribano Cablido Diego de Leon," on p. [223]. Text incomplete.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 48 leaves; 22 x 16 cm.

Decoration: Contains some primitive pen-and-ink and pencil sketches on pp. 222, [3], and [5].

Binding: Parchment wrapper, with evidence of leather end ties

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edmonson, Munro S. Quiché Dramas and Divinatory Calendars (New Orleans, La.: Middle American Research Institute, 1997). 

Title: Zakicoxol

Date: 1800s

Language(s): K'iche' and Spanish

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Ms. dance-drama, of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'iche' and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious).

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 16 leaves; 23 x 18 cm.

Binding: Disbound (one gathering)

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edmonson, Munro S. Quiché Dramas and Divinatory Calendars (New Orleans, La.: Middle American Research Institute, 1997.)

Author: Vico, Domingo de, (1485-1555)

Title: Teologia Indorum en lengua Giche [sic]

Date: 1500s

Language(s): K'iche' and Latin

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Brief Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints or the New Testament, and explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.).

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 252 leaves; 21 x 15 cm.

Binding: Vellum wrapper with leather end ties. Text block originally bound in wooden boards, remnants of original cords remain

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Author: Vico, Domingo de, (1485-1555)

Title: Theologia Indorum

Date: 1600s

Language(s): K'iche' and Latin

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Brief Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.). Incomplete, with several pages missing (3-13, 18-21, 106-117, 184-187, 214-217, 234-235, 268-269, 355-362).

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 308 leaves; 21 x 15 cm.

Binding: Disbound, laid in heavy leather wrapper with end ties

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Author: Vico, Domingo de

Title: Theologia Indorum

Date: ca. 1759

Language(s): K'iche' and Latin

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Brief Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.). Foliated with same folio numbers on recto and verso.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 140 leaves; 22 x 16 cm.

Scribe: Written by Thomas Ossorio at San Sebastian, Lemoa [Guatemala] in a month and four days, ending Mar. 1, 1759.

Decoration: 2 pen-and-ink drawings, including Cross with Virgin and St. John (fol. 1 v), and Virgin and Child (fol. 113v). Also includes smaller pen-and-ink sketches of heads of angels (fols. 27r, 127v, 128r).

Binding: Parchment wrapper stiffened with paper pasteboard, some of which is extant, with unidentified text (17th c.?) in a Mesoamerican language, probably K'iche'

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Author: Vico, Domingo de

Title: Theologia Indorum

Date: 1500s

Language(s): K'iche' and Latin

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Incomplete ms. beginning on p. 3, possibly in the hand of of Domingo de Vico, containing Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.). Paper damaged with loss of text, with 19th-century pagination.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 144 leaves; 22 x 16 cm.

Binding: Parchment wrapper

PROVENANCE

Discovered in the town of Cunén; later acquired by William E. Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Author: Vico, Domingo de

Title: Theologia Indorum

Date: 1500s

Language(s): K'iche' and Latin

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Incomplete ms. containing Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, etc.). Paper damaged with loss of text.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Material and Layout: Paper; 45 leaves; 21 x 15 cm.

Binding: Heavy leather wrapper

PROVENANCE

Early provenance unknown; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.